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Market sizing vs Sizing the market and marketcrafting

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Market sizing

Assess the size and value of a served or potential market.

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Strategic
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Sizing the market and marketcrafting

A set of top-down, bottom-up and triangulation methods for estimating market size when reliable published data are unavailable.

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Intermediate
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Strategic
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Choice logic

Use this when.

Market sizing

To estimate the volume and value of an existing or potential market.

Sizing the market and marketcrafting

Use marketcrafting or another market sizing method when no adequate third party estimate exists and the organisation must construct a market view from primary evidence and informed assumptions.

Extracted signals

Strengths, limits, and pitfalls.

Market sizing

  • Show a range, the assumptions that drive it and a reconciliation between independent methods. The decision usually needs an order of magnitude and a threshold, not a cosmetically exact total.
  • Break the result down by country and vertical, such as grocery, food service, third party logistics and fast moving consumer goods. Compare current hand picking demand with plausible automation scenarios and forecast the next five years using ranges for adoption and price.
  • The final model should expose market definition, sources, assumptions, calculations, uncertainty and reconciliation between methods. Include decision thresholds: what must be true for the investment to proceed?

Watch for

  • Do not mix units, market boundaries or value chain prices. A model can be arithmetically correct and strategically useless if its definition does not match the decision.

Sizing the market and marketcrafting

  • Define the market boundary first, then ask several informed people to estimate competitor scale independently before reconciling the assumptions.
  • Begin by deciding whether the required boundary is the addressed or addressable market:
  • Addressed market – the customers to whom the organisation currently offers its goods or services, whether or not they buy.

Watch for

  • Do not confuse a transparent estimate with a fact. If marketcrafting suggests 25 per cent share and credible market intelligence suggests 30–35 per cent, investigate the gap instead of dismissing the conflicting evidence.

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Application bridge

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